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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
Even if the
> range of a single language expands in that way, initial homogeneity
will
> soon be followed by regional differentiation and increasing
diversity --
> after all, the Romance language owe their origin to the political
> success of Rome.
>
Are you sure of this? Because, sure, the Western Roman Empire wasn't
monolithic culturally speaking, but even if its political unity
didn't stop the dispersion of latin, at least it prevented it from
going too far.
I say that it wasn't to Rome's success that the Romance languages owe
their origins, on the contrary, it was rather to the fall of the
Empire and subsequent political breakup that facilitated the
dispersion of latin and eventual birth of the Romance family.